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Seek to Raise $100,000 Fund in Tribute to Professor Einstein

January 29, 1933
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ing to Dr. Rosenbach. The headquarters of the dinner will be the American office of the Hebrew University.

Among the guests present at the luncheon yesterday to formulate plans for the Einstein Tribute Dinner were Dr. Emanuel Libman, personal physician to Dr. Einstein and member of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University, Elisha Friedman, secretary of the American Council of the Hebrew University, Dr. Nathan Ratnaoff, director of the Beth Israel Hospital and president of the American Jewish Physicians Committee for the Hebrew University, Dr. Israel Wechsler, neurologist of Columbia University. Eugene Untemyer, counsel for the Hebrew University and Dr. Henry Wachtel, head of the committee of dentist’s work on behalf of the University.

Other guests included Dr. Ferdinand Sonneborn, Dr. Samuel Schulman of Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi Wm. Rosen-bloom of Temple Israel, David L. Po-dell, Mrs. Lane Malsin, Julius Weiss, Harold Riegelman, Lazarus White, Emanuel Hertz, Dr. Isidor Greenwald. Representatives present from Jewish organizations included Mrs. Samuel Halpren, president of the Hadassah organization; Captain Abraham Tulin, member of the administrative committee of the Zionist Organization of America, and Jacob Landau, Managing Director of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Dr. Einstein was a member of the first Board of Governors of the Hebrew University at its opening in 1925, and chairman of its first Academic Council. The original manuscript of his theory of relativity is in the possession of the Hebrew University Library as the gift of Dr. Einstein.

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